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This year I have had some issues with lack of inspiration and the spark just haven't been there. So the lack up updates here on Irry is mostly because not much have happened with the car. But this weekend I finally did some more work with the brakes so today feels like a good day to pos...

I spent a few hours in the garage this evening troubleshooting the cruise control. The key ingredients here is sucking and blowing! It sounds crazy but sucking and blowing in the vacuum hoses is a good way, maybe the best way, to localize the leak. I also used the vacuum pump in my trou...

The workshop called me early this morning and said that they had time to look at my car again. So, I draged myself out of bed and rushed in. There weren't much of a discussion when I got in and we immedietly started to suck the system clean and refill it. Once refilled it worked, wooohoo...

Crazy early this morning I headed back to the workshop for a new pressure test. They filled it up and bought out the digital nose that immediately went bananas when sniffing around the compressor and around the pipe I changed yesterday, GRAAAARGH! We soaked everything in some fluid in h...

This is a catch-up post for the last few months up until today. In the beginning of June I gave the S2 some new oil and a new filter. When doing this I once again noticed that the oil plug was in a really bad shape. Luckily I bought a new one the last time I swore over it and after a wh...

My friend who have been welding the splash shields just changed job so he never got to finish the shields. Before he left the old job he did start to weld the splash shields but they are not completed yet. I thought it was a good time to get them back and just test them on the car and y...

Today I dusted of my non existent SolidWorks skills and CAD'ed the new bracket. I'm pretty happy with the results and I'll just have to double check a few measurements before I send it of to the manufacturer....

I spent a few hours in the garage today and tried the brakes on the car. I think I have the solution for the new bracket. I will use the original RS6 bracket as a starting point but new bracket will be rotated 180 degrees and adjusted so that the caliper is moved 4.5mm out from the brac...

Sweet Jesus! Are they big or are they big!? I love them and I haven't even touched them yet! I bought them from BHV Handel in Germany and they were shipped to my parents who took these pictures (I'm trapped in another city at the moment). I can highly recomend BHV Handel! Great prices a...